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3.1 Using the Application

3.1.1 First Steps With Word Processing

Which of the following will launch Microsoft Word, a word processing package?
(Choose all that apply.)

Choose Word from the Windows Start menu (if available).

Choose Word from the Windows All Programs menu.

Choose Word from the Quick Launch menu (if available).

Double-click a Word file (.doc).

There are a number of ways to open a Word document. Which of the following
opens an existing Word file from inside Word? (Choose all that apply.)

Click Open on the Standard toolbar to open the Open dialog box. Using the
Look In control, navigate to the appropriate folder, select the file, and then
click Open.

Choose Open from the File menu to open the Open dialog box. Using the Look In
control, navigate to the appropriate folder, select the file, and then click
Open.

Double-click a Word file (.doc) in the Windows Explorer.

Press Ctrl+O to open the Open dialog box. Using the Look In control, navigate
to the appropriate folder, select the file, and then click Open.

Opening a new Word document provides a clean page, with no text or formats.
To open a new Word document, you should do which of the following? (Choose all
that apply.)

Press Ctrl+N.

Choose New from the File menu.

Click the New button on the Standard toolbar.

Close any open documents and choose New from the File menu.

When saving an unsaved file for the first time, you must choose Save As so
you can name the file.

True

False

You can save a Word file to which of the following storage mediums from
inside Word, as long as you have the appropriate permissions? (Choose all that
apply.)

Any folder on your system's hard drive

A CD-ROM

An installed and connected Zip drive

A floppy disk

A storage folder on a networked server

There are two ways to rename a file: Use the Save As command to retain the
original and create a new file with the new name, or use the Rename command to
rename the original file, which means you end up with just one file, using the
new name.

True

False

You've created a .doc file that contains all the formatting you want to
reuse for most of your documents. How do you reuse those formats in subsequent
documents?

Copy the document's styles to a new document.

Delete all the text and save the empty (but not truly blank) document as a
template file by launching the Save As dialog box and saving the Save As Type
item to Document Template. Then, apply the document to any new document.

Open the formatted document, save it using a new name, and overwrite the
contents as required.

Open the formatted document and a blank document. Then, copy the properly
formatted segments to the new document.

You want to copy a few paragraphs from one document into another. What do you
do?

Print out the first document and, using that as a guide, retype the text into
the second document.

Save the first document using a new name and then delete all but the text you
want to retain.

Open both documents. Copy the appropriate text to the Clipboard and then
switch to the second document using Word's Window menu or by clicking the
appropriate document icon on the Windows taskbar. Once in the second document,
paste the text where you want it.

Open the first document and copy the text to the Clipboard. Close that
document and open the second, and then paste the Clipboard contents into the
second document.

You can't remember how to insert a table into a document. What should
you do? (Choose all that apply.)